Lilypond to Finale [Notepad]

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hello all!

Well, it finally happened… I got a commission for an arrangement with the 
following restriction:

"The music should be engraved using either Sibelius or Finale music engraving 
program. Please submit the engraved arrangements as open files and also as 
PDF-files.”

I’ve already asked the commissioner/publisher, and this term is non-negotiable. 
The commission fee is sufficient to do the arrangement, but not generous enough 
for me to [in addition] hire someone to engrave it in Finale or Sibelius. And 
I’m certainly not going to invest a lot of time (or *any* money!!) in Finale or 
Sibelius.

So before I give my final answer to this commissioner, I want to know if anyone 
has had experience with converting a relatively simple Lilypond score (SATB + 
piano) to the free Notepad version of Finale [p.s. Is there a Sibelius 
equivalent?] — via MusicXML, I’m assuming — and from there into the full 
version (which the commissioner/publisher will eventually have to do).

If it’s 1 hour or less from a finished Lilypond score to having a “converted” 
file to send, then I’ll consider it; otherwise, it’s not worth my time taking 
this commission.

Thanks,
Kieren.
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Kieren MacMillan, composer
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